Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman had a strong eight-year run on KHOW, an eternity in radio, that concluded Friday. Clear Channel management characterizes their departure as “a business decision.” Greg Foster, head of the Clear Channel Colorado AM stations, said, “I can’t elaborate.”

Both Caplis and Silverman have described a “mutual” decision, inspired by the idea that they’d done all they could and for long enough.

Guest hosts will fill in this week, a new live and local show to run 3-7 p.m. will be announced soon, perhaps this week. (The new show will be one hour longer than “Caplis and Silverman,” pushing the schedule back an hour; the overnight show will start at 1 a.m. instead of midnight).

The world will little note, nor long remember what was said here. Personally, I could never listen to the show for more than thirty seconds before the relentless, compulsive Obama-bashing of Dan Kaplis (which seemed to be his whole, radio raison d’etre) caused me to switch stations. The whiny, sniveling voice of Craig Silverman wasn’t much better, either.

Both should stick to the practice of law, where crappy personalities and biased, agenda-driven points of view are suitably appreciated.

Anonymous

I don’t know these guys or their show. But thought I’d point out one thing: Radio hosts generally express opinion, and opinion by definition is “biased.”
So what you’re saying is that you disgree with them. You know, that whole “agenda-driven point of view” thing.

Anonymous

I’m very happy the station will keep a local format, Colorado needs that local format, after all, those in the know, know talk radio really started here in Denver.
I’m sorry to see the guys go, I’m excited we may pickup someone awesome too!
In my book Peter Boyles walks on water, I think Colorado deserves someone of Boyles caliber. Someone unafraid of ticking off local government. We need a show we’re scared to turn off for fear of missing something. That’s how many of us feel about Boyles, we are afraid of missing something. We can’t afford to turn him off. The guy is just so smart.

Wow, Boils is smart in the sense that he gets credulous/gullible folk like you to listen to his race baiting drivel every day. Dude, if Boyles could drive ratings everyday by praising Obama and questioning the birthplace of Romney, he’d do it.

Anonymous

HMmm….. you must feel very threatened. If you are so much against a host, maybe you should consider calling his show. I’m sure if your point is reasonable, all of us will agree with you. On the otherside if your point is for current social programs designed to redistribute American weath to others, many of us have seen socialism fail in other countries. We may not be as open minded as a socialist. Boyles brand of politics is very refreshing to many listeners in Colorado. In your case comrade, you can always tune out, at least for now you still have a choice.

nowitall

“…current social programs designed to redistribute American weath to others…” Dude! Really? That’s what’s already been happening in America since the days of Reagan. Only the redistribution has been from the Middle Class to Our Betters™ in the top income class. The rich get richer and the poor (and Middle Class) get poorer is the true American Exceptionalism. It’s been in all the papers.

Really………. the papers and left-wing TV are all part of the Liberal Media. You don’t expect anyone to believe information from the Obama propaganda machine do you? I gotta side with AgendaBuster here, It’s not that easy anymore, NBC, PBS and the rest are all in bed with the unions, the President and the United Nations, I suppose next you’re going to tell us you believe in climate change, sun power and one world government.
It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee brother, we’re losing our country. It’s socilists like you training our children to turn in their parants for speaking against party doctrines. ( Climate Change )

By all estimation, he most likely still is. But at least he’ll be an idiot without a microphone for the time being.

Paul DesChenes

OK, so now I will listen elsewhere. I really enjoyed the show, not agreeing with all they said on air. But they stuck to their convictions and had some pretty good debates that never dengenerated to a screaming and yelling contest that their opposition so often did. You need intellect to win a debat and have the facts striaght… and rthe truth present. For those who didn’t like them, you could have always cone to the progressive station on AM 760 that no one listens to.
God bless you guys and God Bless, not God-Damn America.

Anonymous

Fingernails scraping across a chalkboard for hours is less painful then their AWFUL show !
Good riddance !
Don’t let the door hit your behinds on the way out !!!!!!

Double B

Caplis has an agenda that blinds his thinking and it comes from a strong Catholic/repub background. If you do not drink that flavor or strength of Kool-Aid, he just appears brainwashed. Which is why some of us have radios that cannot find that channel, no matter how clear it sounds to some.

jhincolorado

You people must have been listening if you all know that they were both no good. And in the end, thats all that both shows wanted.

Richard J. Schneider

My understanding is that both Craig and Dan are good lawyers.

No doubt Clear Channel will serve up some delightful fete in their place, something droning, something monotone, and for an additional hour, an extra treat.

Sadly, no known Progressive is even mildy entertaining. Politically Correct Talkers truck hate rather than insight or – god forbid – comedy. Air America was undeniable proof of that…

Josh Biggs

If you think that Caplis and Silverman’s ratings were bad, you should see the rating for the progressive Obama station AM 760. KHOW had a 2.4 Average Quarter-Hour Rating (176,400 listeners per quarter hour) in May while AM760 had a miserable 1.4 Average Quarter-Hour Rating (73,800 listeners per quarter hour). Somehow I don’t think going Pro Obama is going to help KHOW’s ratings. AM 850 KOA, the home of Rush Limbaugh, on the other hand had a 5.7 Average Quarter-Hour Rating in May (415,900 listeners per quarter hour). KOA, the home of Rush Limbaugh, is number two in its market .4 points behind KQMT-99.5 FM, a classic rock station.

gleapman

What’s radio?

jfessler

I loved it when Caplis exposed Obama for what he really is.

kHOW Boring!

Please be careful if you find yourself behind a speeding ambulance… you wouldn’t want to hit either of these goons – they probably have good lawyers.

Anonymous

Methinks Clear Channel will consult with their bankster overlords and
then fill the slot with yet another neocon that cheerleads for more war,
more police state, more banksterism, and more government (just a GOP
flavored government). Replacing libertarian Jason Lewis with that
globalist/corporatist pimp Hannity set the precedent.

Hey Clear Channel, here’s a suggestion, rather than a duo of left
statist and a right statist, why not have a threeway with a progressive,
a neocon, and a libertarian?

Right_move

It is so obvious from the close minded, left leaning, socialist comments, that this paper and ideals are on the downslide. Only by throwing out nasty barbs without backup that is so typical of the left kicking someone when they are down. The Denver Post is on the way out as readership and advertising continue to plummet, yet they still slant their “news reporting” in favor of the left. I guess they forgot they are in the news business and not an opinion cheerleader. Too bad for your closed mind readers and their backward agenda. As per Margaret Thatcher “the problem with sociailsm is eventually you run out of other peoples money”

RadioAnon

It was probably getting too difficult for Caplis to stalk Tim Tebow in New York and do a radio show in Denver at the same time.

Danno

I used to really enjoy the show but after a while, the rhetoric spewed by Caplis was too much to handle; this coming from a person who agreed with him most of the time. I really enjoyed the shows where their kids would come in a co-host. On to the next chapter I guess.

Dan’s a right wing idiot know it all (a poor mans Sean Hannity), Silverman’s voice is sooooo annoying and non radio friendly. I gave them a 5 minute try back in 2003ish, and I was done, and I’m a talk show radio junkie who loves the Boyles show and others. I can’t believe Caplis and Silverman lasted this long.

LoyalFan

I was extremely disappointed in the decision to fire this team that I listened to faithfully for so many years. I felt they presented both sides of an issue very well, & always had interesting topics relative to what is happening in the world today. I hope KHOW is not going to move toward a more progressive slant, because I will no longer be lisening to this station in the future, if that is the case. There are already too many stations out there, plus the national news media, that are putting out that deception to the American people.
Dan & Craig, God bless & I will miss you!

KC

Yeah, you wouldn’t want to hear both sides of issues. Rather hear Dan run over Craig with nothing to back up his rantings.

Craig was just inane a lot of the time with lame jokes and Dan is a pedantic and sanctimonious jerk (God bless is wife, not sure how she puts up with him). Stopped listening to any great degree several years ago due to the frustration of one not really very articulate and the other always having his knickers in a twist over Obama, Tim Tebow, you get my drift…..

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.